Friends in lifestyle

Most definitely friends. We have been in the swinger lifestyle for over 20 years and have made a lot of friends. Not only do we enjoy the sexual play together we do many other things where sex couldn't happen such as family gatherings, etc.
For us the bottom line is that the more the friendship grows the better the sex is.
 
Do others in this lifestyle also like to make friends with others in the lifestyle or is it just about sex nothing more
For us it was kind of both. When we lived in Denver there was period of a few years when we participated in a swinger relationship with two other couples. While we would often spend the day or weekend together doing a variety of activities it always ended with sex.